Hose supporter



Feb. 25, 1935. DQNALDSQN 1,992,741

HOSE SUPPORTE'R Filed July 27, 1932 Invenbor-z ttor-negs.

Patented Feb. 26, 1935 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 3 Claims.

My invention relates to hose supporters particularly designed to be employed for children.

It is an object of my invention to provide a hose supporter adapted to be connected with a garment such as a waist member which has normal support from the shoulders of the wearer, and to make the connection from said garment to a plurality of points at the top of the hose or stocking in such manner that movement of the limbs will be compensated, and uniform holding stress applied not merely. through the elastic members forming the hose supporter, but also because of the free play of said elastic members to lengthen or shorten respectively at the different points of connection with the hose or stocking.

The full objects and advantages of my invention will appear in connection with the detailed description thereof, and its novel features ar particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawing, illustrating some applications of my invention,

Fig. 1 shows the figure of a child with one of the hose-supporting members in position connected with the Waist on the wearer and connected at two points with the upper portion of the stocking. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of what is shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2 showing the clasp open. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 44 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a sectional longitudinal view of a variant form of garment-attaching means. Fig. 6 is a section taken on line 66 of Fig. 5. Figj'l is a sectional detail view showing one form of connecting the ends of the elastic cord. Fig. 8 is a detail sectional view of a variant form for attaching to the garment.

7 As illustrated, a keeper or eye piece 10 may, as in Fig. 2, carry a swinging fastening member 11 adapted to loop over a button 12 (indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2). Through the open slot or guide opening of the keeper or eye piece 10 an elastic cord 13, made endless by having the ends secured togetheras at 14 in Fig. 2, or at 15 in Fig. 7, has two portions extended and enclosed by said slot or guide opening forming a pair of loops l6 and 17 each of which connects slidably through a keeper 18 of a fastener member 19 of well-known construction provided with a metal hasp or loop member 20 adapted to take over a button stud 21 outside of the enclosed fabric 22 at the top of the stocking. In this form it will be seen that the double strands of the cord 13 are both free to slide-in keeper or eye piece 10, and each of the loops 16 and 17 is free to slide in its respective keeper 18, whereby when the supporter is secured to the garment and to the hose, as in Fig. 1, it is adapted to accommodate other through the keeper or eye piece 10, and both loops 16 and 1'7 likewise slipping one way or the other in the keepers 18, thus always equalizing the stresses and holding the stocking in a uniformly even and effective manner. The same result may be secured by the form shown in Figs. 5 and 6 in which the ends of the cord 13 are secured at 23 in a special form of keeper or eyepiece 24, leaving a single loop 25 of said endless cord .free to slide in the slot or guide opening 26 formed in said eye-piece 24. In this form, as shown clearly in Fig. 6, the cord ends are gripped and pinched by a. loop 27 of metal which also forms the seat for the swinging fastener member In the form shown in Fig. 8, in place of the swinging fastening member 11, a safety pin 29 is employed. 1

The advantages of my invention will be apparent from the foregoing description. The supporting cord 13 through the loops 16, 17 has free play to move relatively to all supporting points. Perfect equalization of strains results. Although elastic cord is more effective, non-elastic cord or materials other than round cord can be employed and give good results because of this uniform freedom of movement in equalization.

I claim:'

1. A garment supporter comprising an attaching loop adapted to be secured over a fastener such as a button on a garment, an eye-piece swiveled to said loop having a guide opening adjacent said swiveling connection, an endless cord having its double portions passing through said guideopening and at least one of said portions free to slide therein, and hose-supporting fastener members freely slidable on the loops of the cord outside said eye-piece.

2. A garment supporter comprising an attaching member adapted to be secured to a portion of a garment, an eye-piece swiveled to said member and having a guide-opening adjacent and extending parallel with and close to said swiveling connection, an endless cord having its double portions passing through and freely slidable in said guide-opening, and hose-supporting fastening members freely slidable on the loops of the cord outside said eye-piece.

3. A garment supporter comprising an attachingmember adapted to be secured to a portion of the garment, an eye-piece swiveled to said memher and having a guide-opening adjacent and extending parallel with and close to said swiveling connection, and being formed with a curved lower face, an endless cord having itsdouble portions passing through and freely slidable in said guide opening and upon said face, and hose-supporting fastening members freely slidable on the loops of the cord outside said eye-piece.

ELEANOR DONALDSON. 

